My entire point is that they haven’t written a good story in like three years. That is my point. And the little we know about Season 7 is that Henry was out of character when he answered the door which leads to the idea that he has a memory problem. Lana said that their characters will be a little bit different then they used to be which suggests they are either past versions or cursed. If they are their real selves then we know that Regina, Rumpel, Henry, and Hook are not in Storybrooke and are therefore away from their families.
All of this information suggests the possibility of just another curse, just another memory problem, and that is not interesting. That is not new just because there will be some new characters. It is the same old bad writing with different characters. We don’t even know if there are going to be more new regulars then Lucy and her mother. I am not convinced because the little bit we know seems like the same old same old.
They are still planning the season though, so i am not even sure that the writers know where they are going right now or they didn’t when they did all those interviews. We just need more information that actually suggests they are doing something different.